![]() ![]() Get a Google account, create files with Google Drive, play with Hangout. Acer 720P with touch screen), use it and do everything with it during 2 months. The only way to understand why ChromeOS is so popular is to purchase a 300 USD Chromebook (ex. Despite little marketing, bad press reviews, internal conflict with Android team, contempt of open source developers, virtually no support from manufacturers and growing suspicion over privacy on Google Cloud, it has become the only mainstream GNU/Linux desktop sold in virtually any PC store in Europe and USA. ĬhromeOS expansion is the most impressive. Android is the dominant smart phone platform and ChromeOS has reached 20% market share in the US education market. Whether we like it or not, only one company has achieved until now to bring Linux and open source to mass market: Google. ![]() Īll we can thus hope for the Ubuntu Kylin initiative is that - by relying on Kingsoft WPS proprietary office suite - it will not follow the same path. The mayor had to wait 4 weeks until he could use his city email account on his mobile phone. The new mayor of Munich is complaining about compatibility problems related to the city's "LiMux" project, in which 15000 PCs were switched to a customized Linux distribution. Civil servants or politicians end up rejecting their own standard government desktop OS in favor of Windows due to recurring compatibility problems with Microsoft Office files or growing instability of LibreOffice. ![]() Governments - as in France - that selected leading companies such as Ubuntu to implement a standard government desktop, discover after some years that Canonical still remains unnoticed in any market statistics. National companies such as a Red Flag or Mandriva receive little support from their respective governments, the same governments that plan at the same time to create a national Desktop OS. Whether they customize an existing open source GNU/Linux desktop for government applications or derive ReactOS open source Windows XP clone, national desktops fail to attract any audience among consumers or any support from PC manufacturers. Other initiatives based on GNU/Linux operating system are barely more successful. No national Desktop OS initiative has ever experienced success, starting with TRON's commercial failure in Japan in 1989 despites numerous technical advantages. Are those plans going to succeed? National Desktop: 30 years of failure South Korea announced plans to fully migrate to open source by 2020. In China, Windows 8 has been banned from public tenders. Governments in India, China, France, Turkey are considering to develop a national operating system for desktop PC. ![]()
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